The impact of geopolitical factors on border security (case study: borders of North Khorasan Province)"

Using the descriptive-analytical method and relying on objective-historical data and using library resources and virtual space, the following article shows that in recent years, geopolitical factors have been recognized as the most influential factors on the security of the international borders of countries and as fashion parameters. They were the opinion of politicians and researchers. The international border is basically created with the purpose of determining the external limit of the territory of a state, and hence, the borders specify the scope of the government's sovereignty over the people and resources under its influence, and determine the territories where the government can implement its laws. they do North Khorasan Province also has 301 km of international border with the Republic of Turkmenistan, of which 45 km is the water border along the Sombar river and 256 km is the mountain and plain route. One of the important issues regarding international borders is the role and functions of different borders and geopolitical factors affecting them. The different functions of international borders can be classified into two groups: 1) defense-security function 2) communication-commercial function. Besides, the security threats in this region can be classified based on the origin of the threat formation in three separate levels, which include security threats with internal origin, security threats with border origin and security threats with external (extra-regional) origin. be Considering its geographical approach, this article is trying to, in addition to examining the role and functions of the border and the geopolitical factors affecting them, recount the challenges and problems related to this field and answer the main question of this research that "geopolitical factors" What effect do they have on the security of the borders of North Khorasan answer and below are solutions that we will examine in the text.